Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie (2011)
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Beginning with Woodstock '99, director Michelle Esrick has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Saint Misbehavin' journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy's own words… More Beginning with Woodstock '99, director Michelle Esrick has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Saint Misbehavin' journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy's own words with magical stories from an extraordinary array of fellow travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clown's grin and the fool's clothing. In Saint Misbehavin' Wavy is revealed more than the tie-dyed entertainer and ice-cream flavor namesake that often defines him in the popular imagination. Audiences will come to know the activist, the optimist, and the healer who reaches beyond political, economic, and cultural divisions in his commitment to social change and the alleviation of human suffering. Wavy's life is his message, serving as deeply needed inspiration that we can change the world and have fun doing it. Satirist Paul Krasner describes Wavy as "The illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother Theresa, conceived one starry night on a spiritual whoopie cushion," to which Wavy has replied, "Some people tell me I'm a saint, I tell them I'm Saint Misbehavin'." -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Michelle Esrick
- Genres
- Documentary, Musical & Performing Arts, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 8, 2010 Limited
- Studio
- Ripple Effect Films
Critic Reviews
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Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Esrick has crafted an affectionate portrait of a man whose eclectic, ebullient life has been devoted to peace, love and understanding - an eternal hippie who has "walked the walk" since he burst onto the Greenwich Village "Beat" scene in the late 1950s.
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
As freewheeling and irreverent as the man himself, Saint Misbehavin' is that rare documentary whose flaws seem appropriate for its subject matter.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
Like its subject, Saint Misbehavin' is an unabashed love letter to the world that defies the cynicism of our age.
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Are we to believe that this wild-haired, in-your-face LSD disciple is Mr. Perfect? I doubt it.
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Gregg Rickman, Village Voice
Perhaps the fly-on-the-wall approach of Esrick's mentor (and this film's executive producer) D.A. Pennebaker would have been more revealing. Instead, we get just a mystery man in white.
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Cast
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Wavy Gravy
as Poet/Clown/Activist/Fundraiser
- Bonnie Raitt
- Buffy Sainte Marie
- Jackson Browne
- Patch Adams
- Steve Earle
